Altenew & Pretty Pink Posh Collaboration Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Welcome to Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh collaboration blog hop. Two design teams gathered together to bring some inspiration and ideas using supplies from both companies.

You probably came from Keeway Tsao. If not, you may consider starting from the hop beginning, over at Altenew blog.

I made two holiday cards for today special event.

SILVER TREE

Pretty Pink Posh Twine and Bows is a great die set to “wrap” a card (panel or some other element) with twine without adding bulk of actual twine. But I also saw in this twine die some kind of garland or Christmas lights, hung in mid-air. Or light rays coming from lights on a Christmas tree. So I wanted to use this die to represent this image.

Also two die-cuts were made out of silver glitter paper using the same die and adhered to the panel.I made a tree using Altenew Sketchy Evergreen stamps set, stamping the bottom solid layer onto a white cardstock using Dessert Night ink, the heat embossing the middle layer on vellum using Silver Tinsel powder. Then I cut out both layers and adhered them together. Usually adhering velum can be a challenge, as any adhesive can be seen through it. Here I didn’t care much about this, I rather wanted adhesive to be seen. I like that it unevenly is visible, it looks like shadows between tree branches.The sentiment was stamped using Dessert Night ink and heat embossed using iridescent powder to add it some shine. The tree was foam mounted on the panel, which in turn was mounted to a card base. Several cobalt and silver sequins finished off the card.

PRIZES

There are TWO $100 prize packs from Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh up for grabs. Two winners will be picked randomly from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below. Please leave your comments by Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at midnight EST to be eligible to win. Winners will be announced on the Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh blogs on Thursday, November 3rd.

SPECIAL OFFERS

There are also special offers from Altenew & Pretty Pink Posh: Get 10% off your entire Altenew order with code ALTENEWLOVESPPP and Pretty Pink Posh order with code PPPLOVESALTENEW at checkout. Offers end Sunday, October 30, 2016, at midnight EST

SUPPLIES

If you’re interested in the supplies I’ve used – they’re listed below. Where available I use compensated affiliate links (which means if you make a purchase I will get a small commission with no additional cost for you). Click on the letters below to go to a favorite store: Simon Says Stamp (SSS), Scrapbook.com (SC), Amazon (AZ), etc.
I truly appreciate your support!

Kim Faucher

Carol Rossouw

October 27, 2016

Lovely cards! Especially love the golden pine cone card. Altenew is my favourite stamp company – especially their stamp layering sets and I love what I’ve seen ladies do with PPP sequins and sparkles all over the internet. What a great chance to win amazing prizes!

Majda

Carol Henderson

October 27, 2016

L really love the shade of blue on the blue tree. The first tree I had when I got married was trimmed all in blue ornaments. This tree reminded me of that. The pine cone card has such great texture. It looks like you could actually pick it up off the card.

Gretchen Wilson

LaDonna Shelly

Melissa Friedrich

October 27, 2016

Gorgeous cards, simply stunning! I love the twine and bows masking technique for light “rays” and the silver embossed vellum layer of the tree is sooooo pretty! The pine cones and branches are so richly gold, love the brass embossing color!

Sarah M

Arianna Barbara

Jennifer K

October 28, 2016

Such beautiful cards! I love the brass embossed pinecones, they look amazing. I think how you used the Pretty Pink Posh twine and bows die was so creative, that is such an awesome die. You Christmas trees is gorgeous, I love that you used a paper then velum for each of the stamp layers, it really turned out beautifully!

Susie Sonnier

bev p

October 28, 2016

Both are just lovely. Definitely not ‘run of the mill’! The blues are unexpected but really gorgeous, and the golden tones of the woodland elements are elegant. I would love to see a photo of the arrangement that inspired this one. Thank you.

Anna Krol

Laura Greig

Connie MacFarlane

October 30, 2016

I absolutely love both of these cards Svetlana! You never disappoint with your colour choices and techniques. Love this fabulous collaborative hop, enjoying seeing all of my favourite Altenew products teamed up with Pretty Pink Posh. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win!

Lyndal Higgins

Bev Karolak

Barb Macaskill

November 1, 2016

WOW! These are both absolutely gorgeous!! I couldn’t choose a favorite if my life depended on it! The gold pinecones are magnificent and I love the silver tree! Would love to receive either one of these lovely cards!! TFS!